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Rothamsted Experimental Station

Rothamsted Research
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About Rothamsted Experimental Station

Rothamsted Research, previously known as the Rothamsted Experimental Station and then the Institute of Arable Crops Research, is one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, having been founded in 1843. It is located at Harpenden in the English county of Hertfordshire and is a registered charity under English law.

On the show

She was very cool, Muriel Bristol. She worked at this place Dan described, Rothamsted Experimental Station. One of the things they had, they had soil that was collected in 1846. At the time, she was studying the same soil, the same sample in 1919. She found that if you feed it a little solution of minerals, then life appears.

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